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About 40 veterans or their dependents who are graduating from the University of Washington Bothell received special recognition at a veterans challenge coin and stole ceremony May 21 in the North Creek Events Center.

Quick to smile and make a light remark, Clinton Foriska won’t dwell on some of the things that led him to receive the University of Washington Bothell Chancellor’s Medal, which is presented to inspirational students who overcome significant obstacles.

University of Washington Bothell Chancellor Wolf Yeigh announced a new veterans resource center will be open in fall 2018 in Founders Hall, UW1-011. There are about 200 veterans on campus and about 70 others who are spouses or children of veterans, eligible for benefits.

All the marketing advice and connections provided by a UW Bothell faculty member were “amazing,” says the founder of the Lion Heart Foundation, which encourages the military to detect heart problems like the one that took the life of her Marine son.

Thanks to a timely notice from UW Bothell, Ryan Dzakovic won a Veterans Innovation Partnership fellowship for a year-long position with the State Department’s Office of Global Partnerships in Washington, D.C. Dzakovic (master’s cultural studies ’15) is an Army reservist who served in Iraq and Uganda.